Zeke went to Gettysburgh College, Pa. after his grammar school years and Jean went to Mrs. Skinner's Secretarial School but left after a few dull months and went to work in the mailroom of Doubleday Publishing Co., Garden City. More dullness, so ended up commuting from home in L.I. to N.Y.C. working in advertising.
Later, living and working in the City was even better because that is why Z & J met one evening in the N.Y.C. Port Authority building while waiting on line to take the bus out to N.J. By that time Zeke was working in his father's commercial art studio in the City and living in Cranford, N.J. (That's where Jean's family had moved to live) so the twain did meet. Zeke worked as VP of Marketing for Staff Builders, Inc., a national temporary staffing service before we dropped everything to do what we knew was right for us and our family at that time...Vermont!
We lived in Upper Montclair, N.J. for the first seven years of marriage and created two children. We acquired four dogs and decided we needed to live a different life-style. Vermont was the answer. So in 1971, we took the plunge. At first we were considered "odd" in our little country farm village (being city people) but eventually we were fully accepted and it truly became our village, as well. Zeke eventually became Deputy Commissioner of Economic Development for the state of Vermont under our first woman Governor, Madeline Kunin, while Jean ran a business called "THE OLD FIREHOUSE ANTIQUES, YARN & CRAFTS CENTER,which we owned.
Eventually, we moved from Craftsbury and came to the Burlington area where Zeke has just retired from his work as Canon For Ministry Development for the Episcopal Diocese of Vermont. We will now devote our time to our wonderful new enterprise, Gano Excel, USA ... HEALTHY COFFEE.
Always Onward, or as zeke might say in his former life, "ad astra per aspera".
Postscript: Perhaps sometime we'll share some of the unusual happenings our lives have encountered during our never dull country life (if you dare to listen) ... goats, ghosts, 4-H, headaches and always new challenges.
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